Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Greater Cumberland

March 3rd, 10:45 a.m. – Lora Powell-Haney: “Small Transformations, Big Changes”

Historian Howard Zinn wrote: “Missing from [history] are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change.” When the injustices in the world seem so huge and overwhelming, how can we leverage small steps into real shifts? We’ll explore small changes we’ve made within ourselves and how those personal practices can work in our spiritual lives and justice work as well.

March 10th, 10:45 a.m. – Rev. Paul Britner: “Am I a racist?”

Many UUs support adding an eighth principle to the existing seven principles of our faith tradition committing us to “journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.” I’ll offer some context for this effort but focus on how it might inform our spirituality, whether formally adopted or not.

March 17th, 10:45 a.m.  – Michael Franch:  “The Witness You Give: An Appreciation of Small Congregations”

I have to admit, I love preaching from the Channing pulpit at Baltimore’s First Church. It’s fun to be up there in that big historic sanctuary. But most of my preaching, for most of my career, has been in small –sometimes very small – congregations, and I love that, too. I love the intimacy of our interaction, the discussion after the sermon, and I deeply appreciate – I think sometimes more than the congregation members – the important role that they play in their communities and for our denomination. In Maryland, our small congregations, (representing our liberal denomination and their member’s largely liberal political and social attitudes), are largely located in conservative areas. They bear witness in a way that our larger urban congregations are unable to do.

March 24th, 10:45 a.m. – JD Stillwater: “One Song: the Science of Unity”

For millennia mystics and prophets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater, takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything from human bodies to ecosystems to the very fabric of space-time. In short, science agrees: “All is one”.

March 31st, 10:45a.m. –  Easter Celebration of Spring

The Program Committee will lead a sharing of readings celebrating spring.